GANG LAND

Michelle Malkin ^ | Mar. 02, 2005 | Michelle Malkin

[JustAnotherSavage]

GANG LAND By Michelle Malkin · March 02, 2005 10:32 AM

First Lady Laura Bush is leading a warm-and-fuzzy youth initiative to discourage young boys and men from joining gangs.

But as I report in my new column today, it's going to take a hell of a lot more than Kodak photo-ops to combat the criminal alien gang problem spreading across the country:

With all due respect to the First Lady, this is a job best left to law enforcement professionals willing to get tough, get dirty, and crack heads. From the suburbs to our national forests, savage criminal alien gangs are infiltrating America and luring young recruits.

Compassionate conservatism ain't gonna stop them.

As many law enforcement sources have been informing me, native gangs such as the Bloods and Crips have nothing on the recent wave of criminal alien enterprises settling across the heartland. Recent enforcement action in New York demonstrates the scope of the problem. Last month in New York, 41 criminal aliens with felony convictions were arrested by immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) agents on a single day as part of a joint public safety initiative between ICE and the U.S. Probation Office of the Eastern District of New York.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, the aliens arrested in New York — half of whom were here illegally—include citizens of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Ghana, Haiti, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Mexico, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Trinidad, Turkey, Ukraine and Venezuela. The operation targeted criminal aliens with prior felony convictions for "murder, firearms trafficking, drug trafficking, money laundering, racketeering, fraud, false statements, receipt of stolen property, producing false identity documents, copyright infringement and other federal felonies."

A related ICE operation in Chicago targeted violent Hispanic gangs. Over the past five years, ICE agents on Chicago’s Violent Gang Task Force have arrested more than 375 known alien gang members.

As I've been reporting in previous columns and on the blog, the most notorious criminal alien gang on the scene is Mara Salvatrucha/MS-13. They're on the border, in the suburbs, and now...in our national forests. Earlier this week, I spoke with Siskiyou County, Calif., sheriff Rick Riggins, who has uncovered massive marijuana farms in our federal forests . Riggins reports that the Mexican Mafia and MS-13 paraphernalia have been discovered on the scene.

My conclusion: The solution lies with increased federal-local cooperation, aggressive deportation, and uncompromising immigration enforcement, not with piddly anti-gang/"conflict resolution" grants doled out by the First Lady.

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[JustAnotherSavage]

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[Red6]

I have no clue about gangs, or anything related to them first hand. All I know I get from the media. I'm NO expert.

But again we have a boarder issue where Bush (although we love him) is doing the political thing and trying to ride both sides of the fence. CRACK DOWN MR. PRESIDENT! The Latino community will cry, the liberals will have something to scream about, but it's the right thing to do. The Mexican boarder is a security issue. Subtly downplaying it is not in our nation’s best interest.

I see this as a political issue purely. From a technical and tactical perspective I see no real challenge in sealing up the boarder. With modern sensor technology, aircraft, ground vehicles, NVGs/Thermals, barrier options…… it should be possible to seal off this area. We can do this even without resorting to draconian methods. I don’t think it would even take such a large effort to do. Just no one (Including our Bush) is willing to touch this issue.

Red6

[JustAnotherSavage]

".it aint worth the few votes."

It certainly isn't, but the politico's seem to be staking all on that idea.

By the way, with a green card, one can vote in local elections. I don't know what would be keeping them from voting in national elections once they have a ballot.

[Calpernia]

bump

[reformedliberal]

They pay no attention.

I donated to the BC04 campaign this year. I turned down the RNC and every time they called, I told them why (mainly because they withdrew funds from Tim Michels at a critical point in the campaign, based on polling, and then ineffectively returned a small portion late in the campaign when polling showed Tim still had a chance...too little, too late and the PR on the w/drawal hurt him). Flash forward to last week and I get the ranch photo of W and Laura, addressed to me, thanking me for my RNC contributions.

To make it worse: my campaign donations came from a couple of different checking accounts and one credit card. All 3 are in slightly different variants of my legal name. During the campaign, I noticed that I was getting 3 different copies of each campaign spiel(I got 3 separate photos each time they were sent and 3 Christmas cards, etc). I purposely sent the donation requests back (with no money), pointing out they were from the same person and that they needed to merge their mailing lists by address to conserve resources.

None of it made a dent. I think it is all automated. We have much more $$ than the Donks and I still get requests for money to all 3 names at the same address.

[JustAnotherSavage]

"None of it made a dent"


It will when enough people do it. Many folks are changing their registrations to "independent". Pols do notice when their numbers go down.

[HiJinx]

It's airing on Sunday.

[Dat Mon]

Another dynamite post and thread mon.

Your post #47 should be required reading for the uninitiated.

This MS13 gang most likely has ties in with other Marxist revolutionary gangs in Central and South America, who also use drugs to finance their revolutionary activities. Don't be surprised if thugs such as Hugo Chavez funnel money to groups such as MS13 to instigate social instability in this country. Now who are Chavez's silent partners?...well thats another story too.

This is one reason why I say that the immigration issue is part of a much bigger global agenda.

[JustAnotherSavage]

"This is one reason why I say that the immigration issue is part of a much bigger global agenda."

There is hardly an aspect of our lives that the problem isn't touching by now. From healthcare and social security to our very safety and sovereignty.

[HiJinx]

Anyone even remotely connected with the Minuteman Project needs to see this, and get the word out...

[JustAnotherSavage]

Malkin's article also appeared here today:

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin030205.php3

She also has on her website this little tidbit:

AT LEAST WE CAN KEEP UNDOCUMENTED COWS OUT
By Michelle Malkin · March 02, 2005 05:01 PM

AP reports, "Border Not Reopening to Canadian Cows Yet:"

A federal judge Wednesday blocked the reopening of the U.S. border to cattle and expanded beef imports from Canada because of mad-cow fears.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture had planned to reopen the border on Monday. But after a U.S. livestock group objected, U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull granted a temporary order preventing the action.

R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America, based in Billings, had argued that the USDA plan would pose a risk to both consumers and U.S. cattle producers. The organization asked the judge to block the reopening until its lawsuit is heard.

The group's attorney, Cliff Edwards, told the judge that it would be "insane" to allow the import of cattle from a country that has already reported two new cases of mad cow disease this year.

[SAMWolf]

An AC-130 gunship could clear out those camps quickly.

[JustAnotherSavage]

The sheriffs are able to spot many of the farms from the air, but don't have the manpower to go in and clear and arrest most of them. If we were to "drop" something on them, the enviros would just go nuts, but you should see what happens to the terrain with these growing operations. They will enter a heavily forested area and skin all the trees on the lower parts, to save the protective canopy. The land is skinned of all vegetation. It's a mess.

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

bttt for later

[janetgreen]

How about writing some letters to the editor, calling your local police department, writing letters to Congress, etc.

Many people have been doing that on a regular basis for several years. The White House and most Senators and Reps don't bother to respond. They talk about homeland security in TV photo-ops, but they don't practice what they preach.

Funny thing is, they're not living with the mess like those of us in the border states are.

[Lead Moderator]

USA TODAY is allowed on a link-only basis. Thanks.

[Dad yer funny]

there will be a certain % that will play this/us like a violin

[kstewskis]

We are being warned. Now what...wait until people die from attack on our U.S. Soil until someone in DC notices "Houston, we have a problem?"

Does this not constitute as "terrorism?"

God help the Border Patrol, Minute Men, and the local ranchers around Tombstone, and protect them on April 1st.

[TheForceOfOne]

I think a state by state contracted border patrol, bid on by security based companies who receive the contracts funded by a tax shared by all tax payers and supplemented by grants from the Federal Government by roll backs on funds designated for the "No Child Left Behind Act" or other areas where funds could be transfered for better use in order not to increase Federal tax. The security companies would be performance based and subject to loss of contract if requirements are not met. Companies that perform well in other states will be allowed to bid on contracts for other states. The current Border Patrol would concentrate on legal points of access for more thorough searches and background checks with no reduction in manpower, only redeployment. No taxes obtained for border security will be allowed transfer or borrowing against, and surplus funding will be used for future contracts or returned to tax payers as tax relief.